CVE-2023-53271

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53271
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-53271.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2023-53271
Downstream
Related
Published
2025-09-16T08:07:00.565Z
Modified
2026-03-20T12:33:03.852526Z
Severity
  • 5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
ubi: Fix unreferenced object reported by kmemleak in ubi_resize_volume()
Details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ubi: Fix unreferenced object reported by kmemleak in ubiresizevolume()

There is a memory leaks problem reported by kmemleak:

unreferenced object 0xffff888102007a00 (size 128): comm "ubirsvol", pid 32090, jiffies 4298464136 (age 2361.231s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ................ ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ................ backtrace: [<ffffffff8176cecd>] __kmalloc+0x4d/0x150 [<ffffffffa02a9a36>] ubiebacreate_table+0x76/0x170 [ubi] [<ffffffffa029764e>] ubiresizevolume+0x1be/0xbc0 [ubi] [<ffffffffa02a3321>] ubicdevioctl+0x701/0x1850 [ubi] [<ffffffff81975d2d>] __x64sysioctl+0x11d/0x170 [<ffffffff83c142a5>] dosyscall64+0x35/0x80 [<ffffffff83e0006a>] entrySYSCALL64afterhwframe+0x46/0xb0

This is due to a mismatch between create and destroy interfaces, and in detail that "newebatbl" created by ubiebacreatetable() but destroyed by kfree(), while will causing "neweba_tbl->entries" not freed.

Fix it by replacing kfree(newebatbl) with ubiebadestroytable(neweba_tbl)

Database specific
{
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/53xxx/CVE-2023-53271.json",
    "cna_assigner": "Linux"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
799dca34ac543485f581bd8464ec9b1c4f0f852a
Fixed
09780a44093b53f9cbca76246af2e4ff0884e512
Fixed
26ec2d66aecab8ff997b912c20247fedba4f5740
Fixed
07b60f7452d2fa731737552937cb81821919f874
Fixed
31d60afe2cc2b712dbefcaab6b7d6a47036f844e
Fixed
95a72417dd13ebcdcb1bd0c5d4d15f7c5bfbb288
Fixed
27b760b81951d8d5e5c952a696af8574052b0709
Fixed
5c0c81a313492b83bd0c038b8839b0e04eb87563
Fixed
1e591ea072df7211f64542a09482b5f81cb3ad27

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-53271.json"